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MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow and Gray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray by Piet Mondrian was originally painted in 1921. This period falls within Mondrian's mature phase, where he refined his abstract s...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Offset

Lithograph I (1037), Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro is known for his abstract, expressive, and child-like Modern style. Original lithograph published in Miro Lithographe I Catalogue Raisonne. Nicely framed. Lithograph I (10...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Wassily Kandinsky, Motif from Improvisation 25, from XXe siecle, 1938
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite woodcut by Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), titled Motiv aus Improvisation 25 (Motif from Improvisation 25), from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valett...
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1930s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro is known for his abstract, expressive, and child-like Modern style. Original lithograph published in Miro Lithographe IV Catalogue Raisonne. Nicely framed. Lithographs II ...
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1980s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Cartones, Modern Art Lithograph by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: untitled from Cartones Year: 1965 Medium: Lithograph on White Wove Paper Edition Size: 1200 Size: 12.5 in. x 17 in. (31.75 cm x 43.1...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition with Stars - Original lithograph (Mourlot #332)
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MIRO Composition with Stars Original lithograph (printed in Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 25 x 19 cm (c. 10 x 8 inch) Edited by Mourlot in 1...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Cubist Abstract Lithograph Pigeons Doves, Birds
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Pigeons" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 327/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso wit...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithograph V (1256), Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro is known for his abstract, expressive, and child-like Modern style. Original lithograph published in Miro Lithographe V Catalogue Raisonne...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Delaunay, La Tour aux Rideaux (Habasque 720-728), Allo! Paris! (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Allo! Paris!, 1926. Published by Éditions des ...
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1920s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rocks and Sun - Original lithograph - Mourlot, 1952
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexander Calder Rocks and Sun, 1952 Original Lithograph (3 color stones) Printed in Mourlot workshop On vellum 31 x 24 cm (c. 12,2 x 9,5 in) Edited by San Lazzaro in 1952 Very goo...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Poezia Marina, Spain - Abstract Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright and bold screen print by Spanish artist Guido Lopez (Spain, 20th century). Titled "Poezia Marina", signed lower right "Guido Lopez', 12/150. Unframed. Image 22.5"H x 25"L, Mat...
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Early 2000s Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

Tunnel /Target
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUNE WAYNE (1918 - 2011) THE TUNNEL II, 1951 (B.69; G.14; Conway 67) Lithograph, signed, numbered, dated July 1951 and titled incorrectly The Target. Edition 35. 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inc...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tunnel /Target
Tunnel /Target
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'Diptych' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Diptych', color engraving and scorper, 1967, edition 50, Black & Moorhead 314. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '10/50' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors on antique-white wove BFK Rives paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches). Minor skinning and tape residue on the top and bottom sheet edges, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 13 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches (146 x 108 mm); sheet size 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 inches (394 x 292 mm). Hayter created this work using engraving and scorper on 2 plates, printed side by side. He used alkali blue, printed intaglio, and a phthalo green with a hard roller on the surface. The proofing was in three states, the first with engraving (a single proof); the second adding further engraving and scorper (a single proof); the third added further engraving and editioned: color trial proofs, 5 artist's proofs, edition of 50. The edition was completed in three printings: 8 in 1967; then Hector Saunier printed numbers 9 through 18 in 1968, and numbers 19 through 50 in 1969. This impression is from the Saunier 1968 printing. Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed alkali blue/phthalo green. An impression of this work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall. The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated in this way included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet. Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Engraving

Italian Artist Modern Silkscreen Eugenio Carmi
Located in Surfside, FL
Eugenio Carmi is an Italian painter born in 1920 in Genoa. He studied in Turin in Felice Casorati’s studio. His experience as a graphic designer in the ‘50s, is decisive for his pict...
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1980s Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, The City, from XXe Siecle, 1966
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992), titled La ville (The City), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXVIIIe Annee N°26, Mai 1966, originates...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tamayo, Composition, Ediciones Polígrafa, Redfern Gallery (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Ediciones Polígrafa, Redfern Gallery, 1979. Published by Redfern Gallery, London...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Hommage a Rene Char after Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
This colorful lithograph after Pablo Picasso was printed by the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1964 and is unsigned*. This image is taken from a drawing in pencil and colored chalk enti...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Wassily Kandinsky, Comets, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, 1938
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), titled Comets, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 2, originates from t...
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1930s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Cubist Abstract Lithograph Two Pigeons or Doves
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Deux Pigeons" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 146/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picass...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Emilio Vedova, Intolerance, from XXe Siecle, 1961
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Emilio Vedova (1919–2006), titled Intolleranza (Intolerance), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXIIe Annee, N° 16, Mai 1961, originates from th...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

'Flyable Objects Identified' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Flyable Objects Identified', color serigraph, 1969, edition 30, Ryan 83. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 30' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, o...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition IV, from Derriere le miroir, 1955 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), titled Komposition IV (Composition IV), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 77–78, originates from the 1955 edition ...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

View of the City of Paris from the side of the island called... - Etching - 1748
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper realized in 1748. Very good condition except for some minor foxing. Includes a wooden frame cm. 27.5x41.5
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1740s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

Dorothea Tanning, The Exhibition, from XXe Siecle, 1974
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012), titled LExpose (The Exhibition), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXXVIe Annee, No. 42, Juin 1974, originates fro...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Eduardo Chillida, Untitled, from Derriere le Miroir, 1982
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the historic 1982 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, Hommage a Aime et Marguerite Maeght (Tribute to Aime and Marguerite Maeght). Published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, under the direction of Aime Maeght, and printed by Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, Paris, this composition embodies Chillida’s exploration of form, balance, and spatial tension. In Sans titre, the artist distills his sculptural sensibility into a two-dimensional plane, using the language of gesture and contrast to evoke mass, gravity, and void. The work exemplifies Chillida’s poetic approach to abstraction, where line and density coexist in perfect equilibrium. Executed on velin paper, this lithograph measures 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.9 cm). As issued, it is signed in the plate and unnumbered, consistent with the authorized publication format. The edition captures Chillida’s mastery of minimal means to achieve monumental expression, extending the spatial dialogue that defines his sculpture into the medium of print. Artwork Details: Artist: Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002) Title: Sans titre (Untitled), from Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, Hommage a Aime et Marguerite Maeght (Tribute to Aime and Marguerite Maeght), 1982 Medium: Lithograph on velin paper Dimensions: 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.9 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Date: 1982 Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris Printer: Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, Paris Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1982 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 250, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris Notes: Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This special issue of Derriere le Miroir was designed and defined by Aime Maeght in the fall of 1980. He envisioned its publication as a celebration with which artists and writers published since 1946 were to be associated. He also chose Francois Chapon, president of the Reverdy Committee, to write the presentation. This Derriere le Miroir number 250 took the form, after its disappearance on September 5, 1981, of a tribute to Aime Maeght and his wife Marguerite Maeght who died four years earlier. 24 artists agreed to create an original graphic work for this issue which includes the general table of all issues as well as excerpts from texts by 32 writers. Finished printing on June 2, 1982 on the presses of the l'Imprimerie moderne du Lion in Paris. CL examples were printed on velin d'Arches, numbered from I to CL, and some non-commercial examples constituting the original edition. About the Publication: Derriere le Miroir (translated as "Behind the Mirror") was an iconic French art periodical published from 1946 to 1982 by Maeght Editeur, one of the most influential art publishers of the 20th century. Founded by Aime Maeght in Paris, the publication was conceived as a visual and literary collaboration between leading modern artists, poets, and critics. Each issue functioned as both an exhibition catalogue and a work of art in itself—featuring original lithographs printed directly from the artists' stones or plates, alongside essays, poems, and critical commentary. Over the course of 36 years, Derriere le Miroir produced more than 250 issues and showcased an extraordinary roster of artists including Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, Pierre Bonnard, Alberto Giacometti, Eduardo Chillida, Ellsworth Kelly, Francis Bacon, Paul Rebeyrolle, Claude Garache, Antoni Tapies, Bram van Velde, Pierre Alechinsky, Pol Bury, Shusaku Arakawa, and Gerard Titus-Carmel. Printed in the ateliers of Mourlot, Arte, and Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, the periodical set new standards for quality in color lithography, combining fine art printing with elegant typography and poetic text. Beyond its visual brilliance, Derriere le Miroir also became a cultural chronicle of postwar European modernism. Each issue coincided with exhibitions held at Galerie Maeght, providing a collectible and widely accessible record of groundbreaking shows. Its integration of image, text, and philosophy created a dialogue between art and literature that elevated the modern art book to new aesthetic heights. Today, Derriere le Miroir remains one of the most sought-after and historically significant art publications, prized by collectors and scholars alike for its craftsmanship, influence, and its role in defining the visual language of 20th-century modernism. The Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence continues to honor this legacy through exhibitions and archival preservation of the series, affirming Derriere le Miroir's enduring place in the history of modern art and fine art publishing. About the Artist: Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002) was a Spanish Basque sculptor and printmaker internationally celebrated for his monumental abstract works that explore the interplay between form, space, and material. Renowned for his mastery of iron, steel, stone, and concrete, Chillida created sculptural compositions that evoke both architectural strength and poetic balance, reflecting his lifelong dialogue between the physical and the spiritual. Emerging in postwar Europe, his art stands alongside that of the great modern masters—Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray—whose revolutionary approaches to form and perception shaped 20th-century art. Chillida’s work embodies a profound sense of harmony, rooted in the landscapes and philosophies of his native Basque Country, while maintaining a universal resonance. Exhibited internationally and collected by major institutions including MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Tate, and the Centre Pompidou, his sculptures and works on paper continue to command global acclaim. The highest price ever paid for an Eduardo Chillida artwork is approximately $4.1 million USD, achieved in 2022 at Christie’s Paris for Buscando la Luz IV (2001). Eduardo Chillida Sans titre, Eduardo Chillida lithograph, Chillida Derriere le Miroir, Chillida Maeght...
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1980s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Moses - Etching by Gian Paolo Berto - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Moses is an original etching on paper realized by Gian Paolo Berto, in 1974. Good conditions . Hand-signed with and numbered on the lower left. edit...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

Beach Horizontal
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Beach Horizontal Composition, Lithograph on Paper, mid 20th century, marked "artist's proof" lower left, signed in pencil and with ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Akira Kito, Child, from Prints from the Mourlot Press, 1964
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Akira Kito (1909–1995), titled Enfant (Child), from the album Prints from the Mourlot Press, exhibition sponsored by the French Embassy, circulated by th...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Seascape, from Painters of Today, 1960 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992), titled Marine (Seascape), from the folio Vieira da Silva, Peintres d'aujour...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Henri Matisse, Series D, Var. 1, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie D, var. 1 (Series D, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Calder, The Blue Balloon, Spanish Refugee Aid (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Published and printed by Bank Street Atelier, New York, 1973. I...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Equinoxe, Modern Offset Lithograph Poster after Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, After, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Equinoxe, Year: 1996, Medium: Offset Lithograph Poster, fascimile signature, Image Size: 29.5 x 20.5 inches, Size: 37.5 x 25.5 in. (95.2...
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1990s Modern Abstract Prints

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Offset

Alex Katz 'Reflection 2'
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz (born 1927) Reflection 2 2021 Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper 47 x 39.5 inches (119 x 100.3 cm) Edition of 81/100 With flat plane...
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2010s Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

Roger Bissiere, Sun, from XXe Siecle, 1964
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Roger Bissiere (1886–1964), titled Soleil (Sun), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXVIe Annee N°24, Decembre 1964, originates from the 1964 edi...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

L'aquarium sur la caisse, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, a...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Dubuffet Painted Sculptures at Pace Gallery-Lithograph-Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an original poster designed by Jean Dubuffet for his 1968 exhibition Painted Sculptures at Pace Gallery, held from April 13th to May 18th. Created by the artist specifically ...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Lithograph "Enfant Dejeunant"
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Enfant Dejeunant" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 121/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Pi...
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1980s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Francis Bacon, Portraits of George Dyer, Derriere le Miroir, 1966 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Francis Bacon (1909–1992), titled Portraits of George Dyer, originates from the historic 1966 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 162. Published by Maeght E...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Henri Matisse, Series K, Var. 4, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie K, var. 4 (Series K, Variation 4), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"Somber Planet"
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), "Somber Planet", Lithograph on Paper, mid 20th century, numbered edition "13/90" lower left, signed in pencil lower right, with the...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Stanley William Hayter, Trois Personnages
Located in New York, NY
Black and Moorehead 198, edition of 50. Signed, titled, and numbered, in pencil. Made shortly after Stanley William Hayter returned to his Paris Atelier 17 from New York, Trois Perso...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Intaglio

Still Life — Mid-century Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Still Life', 1947, wood engraving, edition 8. Signed, dated, and numbered '3/8' in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving' in the bottom left margin. A fine impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters. After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’ In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’ At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951. Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’. An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait, from Twelve Contemporaries, 1959 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), titled Portrait (Portrait), from the album Douze Contemporains (Twelve Contemporaries), originates from the 1959 editio...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Bold Abstract Circles Color Lithograph Alexander Calder Unfinished Revolution
Located in Surfside, FL
1975 Color Lithograph by Alexander Calder from Our Unfinished Revolution portfolio One of 250 copies, with the printed signature and date on offset paper. This is not pencil signed ...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Harmony : The Lotus Flower - Tall original screenprint signed & numbered /89
Located in Paris, IDF
Shepard FAIREY (Obey Giant) Harmony : The Lotus Flower Original sceen print Handsigned in pencil blind stamp to margin Numbered 42 / 89 On vellum 41 x 30 inch (c. 104 x 76 cm) Come...
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2010s Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

Henri Matisse, Series O, Var. 7, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie O, var. 7 (Series O, Variation 7), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Totem by Le Corbusier
Located in New York, NY
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” This colorful modern lithograph was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1963 and is from the printer's edition. It is signed and dated in the plate in the bottom left quadrant. Le Corbusier...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Entre deux eaux
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1968 Catalog : Catalogue [Denoël 91] 56.00 cm. x 38.00 cm. 22.05 in. x 14.96 in. (paper) 31.00 cm. x 24.00 cm. 12.2 in. x 9.45 in. (image) Engraving on Japan paper, 1968...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Engraving

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Cubist Lithograph Abstract Girl Portrait Tete
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Buste de Petite Fille" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 144/500 lower left From the estate of Pa...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Lithograph "Femme Couchee"
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Femme Couchee" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 296/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Pica...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Houston McConnell, 'Sister Kate', color serigraph, 1947, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '24' in pencil. Annotated '10.00 - 19 colors - 24 copies - #24' in pencil. A fine impression, with vibrant, fresh colors, on heavy tan wove paper, with full margins (11/16 to 1 1/2 inches). Tack holes in the four margin corners, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. Another of McConnell's mid-century modernist, jazz-inspired serigraphs, 'Combo', is featured in the British Museum's 2008 publication (and traveling exhibition) 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock'. ABOUT THE IMAGE "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", often simply "Sister Kate", is an up-tempo jazz dance song, written by Armand J. Piron and published in 1922. The lyrics of the song are narrated in the first person by Kate's sister, who sings about Kate's impressive dancing skill and her wish to be able to emulate it. She laments that she's not quite "up to date", but believes that dancing like "Sister Kate" will rectify this, and she will be able to impress "all the boys in the neighborhood" like her sister. Over the years this song has been performed and recorded by many artists, including Frances Faye and Rusty Warren, a 1959 version by Shel Silverstein...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Screen

In the style of Henry Moore, Mother and Child in Rocking Chair
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a cast metal sculpture of a woman and child, mother and baby in a rocking chair. It has a patina on a white metal. Not sure if it is steel or aluminum. It is and older vintage piece and has wear to patina where it sits and rocks on table. It is not signed or numbered and there is no foundry mark. Hence it is being sold as being after or in the manner of Henry Moore. Henry Spencer Moore (1898 – 1986) Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a coal miner. He became well-known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom later endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts. After the Great War, Moore received an ex-serviceman's grant to continue his education and in 1919 he became a student at the Leeds School of Art (now Leeds College of Art), which set up a sculpture studio especially for him. At the college, he met Barbara Hepworth, a fellow student who would also become a well-known British sculptor, and began a friendship and gentle professional rivalry that lasted for many years. In Leeds, Moore also had access to the modernist works in the collection of Sir Michael Sadler, the University Vice-Chancellor, which had a pronounced effect on his development. In 1921, Moore won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London, along with Hepworth and other Yorkshire contemporaries. While in London, Moore extended his knowledge of primitive art and sculpture, studying the ethnographic collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. Moore's familiarity with primitivism and the influence of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Frank Dobson led him to the method of direct carving, in which imperfections in the material and marks left by tools became part of the finished sculpture. After Moore married, the couple moved to a studio in Hampstead at 11a Parkhill Road NW3, joining a small colony of avant-garde artists who were taking root there. Shortly afterward, Hepworth and her second husband Ben Nicholson moved into a studio around the corner from Moore, while Naum Gabo, Roland Penrose, Cecil Stephenson and the art critic Herbert Read also lived in the area (Read referred to the area as "a nest of gentle artists"). This led to a rapid cross-fertilization of ideas that Read would publicise, helping to raise Moore's public profile. The area was also a stopping-off point for many refugee artists, architects and designers from continental Europe en route to America—some of whom would later commission works from Moore. In 1932, after six year's teaching at the Royal College, Moore took up a post as the Head of the Department of Sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art. Artistically, Moore, Hepworth and other members of The Seven and Five Society would develop steadily more abstract work, partly influenced by their frequent trips to Paris and their contact with leading progressive artists, notably Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti. Moore flirted with Surrealism, joining Paul Nash's modern art movement "Unit One", in 1933. In 1934, Moore visited Spain; he visited the cave of Altamira (which he described as the "Royal Academy of Cave Painting"), Madrid, Toledo and Pamplona. Moore made his first visit to America when a retrospective exhibition of his work opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[28] Before the war, Moore had been approached by educator Henry Morris, who was trying to reform education with his concept of the Village College. Morris had engaged Walter Gropius as the architect for his second village college at Impington near Cambridge, and he wanted Moore to design a major public sculpture for the site. In the 1950s, Moore began to receive increasingly significant commissions. He exhibited Reclining Figure: Festival at the Festival of Britain in 1951, and in 1958 produced a large marble reclining figure for the UNESCO building in Paris. With many more public works of art, the scale of Moore's sculptures grew significantly and he started to employ an increasing number of assistants to work with him at Much Hadham, including Anthony Caro and Richard Wentworth. Moore produced at least three significant examples of architectural sculpture during his career. In 1928, despite his own self-described "extreme reservations", he accepted his first public commission for West Wind for the London Underground Building at 55 Broadway in London, joining the company of Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill. At an introductory speech in New York City for an exhibition of one of the finest modernist sculptors, Alberto Giacometti, Sartre spoke of "The beginning and the end of history...
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1950s Modern Abstract Prints

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Metal

Alberto Giacometti, Georges Braque, August 31, 1963, from Derriere le Miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), titled Georges Braque le 31 aout 1963 (Georges Braque, August 31, 1963), originates from the 1964 folio Derriere le Miroi...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Stacking Stones, Unique Monotype Cyanotype in Indigo Blue, Minimalist Organic
Located in Barcelona, ES
“Stacking Stones” is a unique cyanotype monotype by Kind of Cyan that explores balance, rhythm, and form through organic abstraction. Created using traditional light-sensitive proces...
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2010s Modern Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph, Monotype

Paul Klee, Winter Sleep, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1938
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Paul Klee (1879–1940), titled Sommeil d’hiver (Winter Sleep), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 3, originates from the 1938 issue p...
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1930s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Fernand Leger, Lives, from The Illuminations, 1949
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Vies (Lives), originates from the 1949 folio Les Illuminations, lithographies originales de Fernand Leger (The Illumina...
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1940s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

l'Homme au lavabo [Figure at a Washbasin]
Located in London, GB
Etching and aquatint in colours on Arches paper Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right on recto Image: 47.5 x 36.3 cm, Sheet: 67.5 x 52 cm, Framed: 87.9 x 71.7 cm Edition of 46 ...
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1870s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Carnaval of Flowers, from Nice and the Cote d'Azur (Unsigned Proof)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall (after) Title: Carnaval of Flowers Portfolio: Nice and the Cote d'Azur Medium: Lithograph Date: 1967 Edition: Unsigned and unnumbered proof (aside from the editi...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"EK IK" from the series Homage to the Square
Located in Zug, CH
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976) "EK Ii" from the series Homage to the Square 1970 Screenprint on Hahnemühle Buttenboard 55 x 55 cm 21.65 x 21.65 inches Number 31 of 125 Edition Keller, Star...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Board

The Ring
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), The Ring, Abstract Figural Composition, Lithograph on Paper, mid 20th century, two nude figures in dangling hoop, numbered edition ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

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